[IMPACT]

We will organize a virtual hackathon spanning 6 weeks encouraging open-source collaboration of builders across various blockchain ecosystems.

The requisite arrangements are

• Website for registration
• Themes and judges for for hackathon to be selected
• Workshops for orientation
• Guidance on building team activity / time
• Coordination and support during the weeks of the hackathon

This solution promotes:

• Collaboration from builders in other chains
• Increased adoption of Cardano among devs
• Bust the myths about Cardano in a hands on manner
• Ideation and proposals for interoperability

Involves coordination with many teams unlike a usual development project. Insufficient preparation will adversely affect the success.

[FEASIBILITY]

August and September 2022

• Website development
• Themes and judges for for hackathon to be selected
• Publicize hackathon

October 2022

• Workshops for orientation
• Coordinate team building activity

November - mid December 2022 (6 weeks)

• Hackathon coordination and support activities

Budget

• Website development: $2,000
• Team for theme and judge selection: $4,000
• Workshop sessions - Expenses for arrangement and facilitators: $4,000
• Support and coordination team for the hackathon: $4,000
• Prizes for the hackathon: $40,000

This proposal is going to be executed by Loxe Inc.’s team. The full team can be seen at https://loxeinc.com. The leadership team responsible for this project is:

Matthias Sieber

• Professional Software Engineer for over 20 years
• Worked on Liqwid through MLabs internship
• Community-elected Moderator on Cardano Stack Exchange
• Plutus and Prism Pioneer
• Project Catalyst Community Advisor and Veteran Community Advisor
• Catalyst Circle v2 member representing the Cardano Foundation
• Cardano Ambassador
• Built successful marketplaces, startups, SMBs, and mission-driven teams
• Ex-Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member
• CEO Loxe Inc.

Eli Selkin, L.C.S.W., M.S

• Professional Software Engineer for over 10 years
• Plutus Pioneer
• Ex-Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member
• MS in Computer Science, specializing in Machine Learning
• ML architect
• CTO Loxe Inc.

Victor Corcino

• Energy Industry Engineer for 6 years
• Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member
• Member of the 1st Catalyst Circle as Community Advisors representative
• Catalyst Veteran Community Advisor and Proposal Mentor
• Co-creator of AIM Community Tools (CA/vCA Tools, Voter Tool)
• BSc Chemical Engineering and MSc Chemical Engineering and Software Development
• Specialization in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• PhD candidate, researching the field of Machine Learning applied to Computational Fluid Dynamics
• COO Loxe Inc.

Ganesh N

• Professional Software Engineer for over 9 years

• Plutus and Prism Pioneer (1st cohort)

• Ex-Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member

• BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering

• Has lead development of large scale applications

• Experience in the financial services industry

  [AUDITABILITY]

Internally, we will use the Agile methodology to manage and keep track of our progress on this project’s development.

Externally, for audit purposes, we will track the progress according to the delivery of the milestones presented in the roadmap included in the feasibility section of this proposal. This progress report will be done through the monthly meetings with the challenge team and coordinator meetings with the IOG team.

This project will be a success if:

• It results in collaboration between builders in other blockchain and Cardano
• There are proposals from collaborating teams in future Catalyst rounds
• If the number of cross chain proposals increase

KPIs are:

• Number of teams blockchains represented in the hackathon
• Number of teams participating

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